Trastuzumab deruxtecan, osimertinib & durvalumab to become more affordable for cancer patients. But no new initiatives or push to ongoing projects in the healthcare sector in the budget.
Twenty-five critical minerals essential for sectors like nuclear energy, renewable energy, space, defence etc exempt from customs duties. Angel tax abolished, in boost for startups.
Budget 2024: Apart from revising income tax rate structure, FM also proposed the abolishment of angel tax for start-ups, and unveiled big sops for Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.
Survey says there needs to be ‘orderly’ transition to mix of energy sources, which includes hydro, solar, wind & green hydrogen. It also talks about balancing development & climate change.
The Economic Survey 2023-24, tabled in Parliament Monday, lays onus of job creation on private sector & states, and calls out the financial sector for encouraging product misselling.
With a favourable macro-fiscal backdrop, the finance minister can use the additional fiscal space to either hasten the path to consolidation or support the sectors with subdued growth.
The research report also pointed out that only few states benefit from govt's procurement policy. It added that a legal guarantee for MSP would lead to the neglect of non-MSP crops.
Pinarayi Vijayan once called Vellappally Natesan, the general secretary of SNDP Yogam, Kerala’s Pravin Togadia. Now he is giving his hate speech a free pass.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.
Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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